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WATCH THE LIVE ON CAMERA CLASS

1.We met Hilary Ward who tells us her story of triumph from no work to new reps and recurring roles.
2.Then we watch April coach Medina Senghore's audition using two different chords for the same character.

3 Day Intensive
DreamingOutLoud Emotional Chords
​Audition Technique Workshop

WHEN
May 19 - 21st 
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
9am-12pm (Mountain Time)


WHAT
You'll learn how to:

• 
 Identify your emotional chord for a given scene 
• 
Learn the 9 Times Fast memorization technique
• Stir in a bit of script analysis to get the importance info you need to add texture to the character
• ​Apply the Emotional Chord to the Side or Role

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Audition Technique Intensive

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Two
Pay in 2 Installments 
of 
$455 per month


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Are you
SICK,
TIRED &
FRUSTRATED
watching
less talented people
​getting more & better quality
work than you?

The writers may strike to get paid what they're worth. 

Ever wonder why actors don't do the same?

Ever wonder why actors no longer get their quote, but are paid the industry minimum across the board?

Ever wonder why you're stuck in recurring, guest star or co star for the same shows over & over again? 

Or worse yet, the same damn show w/a new name: another hospital, legal drama w/another poorly behaved, moderately talented entitled melanin challenged boy at the center of the show being paid $350K per episode while u can barely get more than $1200 a day after a decade in the business for work that props up a less talented actor?

So here's the skinny: 
if more actors started saying "no" to working for the same salary for 20 years or getting less & less each year, producers would find a way to pay more. Actors would strike & that would change, right?

Uh, not anywhere on God's green earth is that happening & here's why: 

So much of our self esteem is wrapped up in somebody 'wanting' us that we're willing to accept less & less each year for the entirety of our careers.

The commercial world is a dead end 4 actors who used to make a living doing that. The possibility of a primetime series regular is almost impossible bec networks keep u recurring, but won't pay ur quote. They now have a flat rate 4 a guest star. It matters not what u made on ur last job. 

They do this to keep the star satisfied & hire u to prop up his performance. 

privileged white men are still running the game, making more each year while u make less. 

BLM was not only about privilege, but also the death of this idea that there is equity in America. 

If u don't believe ur worth it & require compensation/treatment accordingly, u won't get it. 

There is no meritocracy. 

So, what's a girl to do: 

Figure out what ur worth & set that as ur agenda

Instead of running around begging for the same job, doing the same role for less year after year

Now, how do we do that? 

It's not only possible, but my clients are working for salaries worthy of them

It's called TheDreamingOutLoudEmotional Type Technique. 

It's a game changer that concerns itself w/what u want & not what the industry is willing to pay u. Bec make no mistake, TV/Film IS corporate America where the ethos is pay as little as possible to get as much as possible.

Well, ur not a bargain basement special. U didn't spend years training, hitting the boards around the country & jumping through hoops to please directors & CDs to not get paid what ur worth. 

-AprilYvetteThompson
TheDreamUnLocked.com​

You want to:

• you're in Film/TV but your career's not moving to more complex roles
• Your team has run out of ideas of how to submit you
• You need to get a new team and figure out how to redirect their team’s goals.
• You're getting sides with crappy writing and no idea what to dow ti



Before you can do any of that you have to get rid of
the limiting belief systems the industry teaches us. Namely, the idea that we work for our manager and agent instead of the other way around.

You are the captain of your ship and your career is floundering because you’re not leading.

   Learning your four major life lessons is the first step. Within those lessons is the key to what you do well as an artist and human being. Your four major life lessons are the gifts your ancestors gave you to solve problems in this life that they never had the tools to master. Learning those four major life lessons are the key to learning how to sing your SoulsSong.

Once you understand your gifts and your purpose, you’re able to communicate your vision of your career and create a brand that you can then pitch to your agents and managers. If you’re clear and excited about the vision, it’s easy to get them onboard. 



The DreamingOutLoud Emotional Type Audition Technique is for mid-career actors with tons of training and credits who are stuck.

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WHAT IS AN EMOTIONAL TYPE?
​
Watch the video and find out!

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​For example, saying



“I look this way now, but I won’t always. I can certainly play dumb receptionist #4 for the rest of my life, but what happens as I age? Anyone can play that, but my emotional chords are a lot more complicated and we need to come up with a strategy to start submitting me around my emotional type. This is a win win because it opens up the possibility for me to be seen for more roles that don’t necessary look like me, but certainly FEEL like me.”


Broadening the spectrum of the kind of stuff that you can go out for is a smart business strategy. Because the more roles you’re seen for, the clearer your gifts become to your decision makers in the industry.

For example, I have a client that goes out for
all male roles in Shakespeare because she's like I'm done all the women it's boring it's time for me to play Puck. It’s time for me to play Henry it's time for me to expand which is what a craftsman does over the life of their career.

​
“When I called April,
it was after I had been
particularly frustrated.
My scenes were cut from
a career making, high profile film.


April said,

“Well, why don't you
write something for yourself?”

I did April's
DreamingOutLoud Emotional
Type Technique
& realized that an idea that I had
​was the perfect vehicle for me to
not only play one of my chords,
but also something I was really
passionate about.

So she put me on a writing schedule.

Through this process,
what I'm starting to learn
is that outer experience
is an expression of inner reality.

As my inner reality shifted,
my experience in the business
began to shift.

As I understood that I'm not an actor
who has to wait around for 
someone to choose her 
waiting around for the phone to ring, 
doing her best at auditions and
giving away all her power.

April is the person
who was able to make me realize
what I have to bring to the table &
how I can put that forward.

So I am driving the direction of my career
& not getting buffeted about by whatever
trend comes up or whatever job happens
to become available or whatever people
think black girls are in right now.

Because I'm not here for a trend,
I'm here for the long haul.

So, BadAsses:

April --This is your leader, 
go find her, 
be BOLD, 
be BRAVE
 STAND UP
for YOURSELF
& stand up
​for your
DREAMS.”

--Hilary Ward, Actor/Writer/Producer
(The Fosters, Sharp Objects, NCIS, Grey's Anatomy)

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April Yvette Thompson 
is a Tony-winning producer/writer/actor working across media.  Film/TV credits include BULL, Blue Caprice, Gotham, Blue Bloods, Babylon Fields, The Exonerated (w/Susan Sarandon & Delroy Lindo), Accidental Husband, Backwards,  Babylon Fields, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc.  Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty City The Exonerated(w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, etc 
 
As SimonSays Entertainment Director of Development, April produced Sundance features: Blue Caprice (w/Isaiah Washington), Mother of George (w/Danai Gurira), Gun Hill Road (w/Esai Morales). April was on the Tony-winning producing teams for 2017 Tony for Best Revival for August Wilson's Jitney directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson and 2012 Tony for Best Revival,  Porgy & Bess starring Audra MacDonald (Tony). 

April wrote, produced & starred in her Miami Trilogy of plays: Good Bread Alley and Liberty City (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel noms & Jeff Award) at New York Theatre Workshop.  Her latest play, Black Lives is in development at NYTW.    April has taught at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Harlem School of the Arts, University of Zimbabwe, Maggie Flanigan Studio and various Universities throughout the United States as a Teaching Artist for The Acting Company.  April has served as Artist in Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club, 651 Arts, NYTW and Director/Founder of the The Children’s Defense Fund’s Fundi Freedom Schools where she developed Arts in Education Curriculum for 1500 at-risk students.
EDUCATION: Vassar College, BA  and Rutgers University, MFA  AprilYvetteThompson.com 

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TheDreamUnLocked CEO & Founder

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Brittany Mirabile
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